The thread has shifted around a bit from its starting point (and a lot of good points have been raised!) but concerning the initial topic:
This new option for terminology brings back for me the feeling I first got when Steve began talking about polarity, before any of light/dark stuff came up to cloud the issue. Just a feeling of having two options explained to me in terms of effectiveness and what they do. No moral issues, just "What happens when I plug the battery in facing this way instead of that way?"
The term "Lightworker" has never been an effective term for me -- it somehow seems too... I dunno, hand-wavey or something. I have no problem with metaphysics stuff, it's just the term that falls flat. "Darkworker" for me loses part of its initial meaning due to its partner being weak, and 80% of the rest of the meaning is obscured by the obvious negative connotations the term itself brings up. ("Mr. Pedophile," LOL)
When I first encountered the Polarity issue (when it was being discussed in fairly clinical, detached terms in the first couple of posts) I had a strong sense of it being a very significant way to think about looking at the world. Something I could see had value enough to begin trying to plug it into my world view. Since light and dark came into the picture though, this initial feeling has fizzled away and the whole thing just feels like another way of dividing the world into another "Us" and "Them" (as I recall another person on the forum also posting). But when I start thinking about it again with these new neutral terms replacing the weak Lightworker and skewed Darkworker, I get some of that initial clarity back again. Very useful, thank you.
Pres
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